Short man's disease?

[SHOOTALL]

When i was in high school in the 70's , in one class it was mentioned that males over 6'2" were more likely to be what is termed gay today than shorter men . Wasn't that when loafers got popular and cowboy boots were scraped ?

[AtlLaw]

Short people

Welp, the odiferous one heard from again... 

Looks like I gonna have to try a little bit of yosef on boy!   

 

males over 6'2" were more likely to be what is termed gay today than shorter men...

This is true!     You see, all their growth hormones went inta growin upward, and not much was left over to contribute to the size of their ... uh, more important part of a man's anatomy!  Ergo, and probably partly in response to the ridicule from the HS girls, they played sports and picked on the short (but much better endowed) guys!   

Is it any wonder they came to enjoy long warm showers with their similarly built fellow jocks?  Why do you think they call them team mates!?   

[SHOOTALL]

some say they get into the sport car craze to compensate for what you mentioned !

[Skunk]

Welp, the odiferous one heard from again... 

Looks like I gonna have to try a little bit of yosef on boy!  

 

Well, I guess you ain't going to be as bad on me as you were on CWLongShot's Doctor. I was rolling on the floor after that post. Good fun.

[Curtis]

You try it and us short folk with our "attitudes" will bust you right in the chop ... uh, ... knee caps!   

Quoting a friend of mine who said "Watch out for them little fellers, they'll knock knots on your head faster than you can rub 'em!"

Curtis

[Sourdough]

The world was designed for short people.  How often do short people bang their head getting on a city bus, train, going through a door, getting into a van, truck, or car?  How often do you not have the room between the clutch and steering wheel to get your foot on the pedals?  How many times has a short person walked into a friends house and been hit up side the head with a ceiling fan blade, or go to stretch out on a bed and have your feet hang out over the end of the bed?  Airplanes, now those things are made for real short people.  Went to fly out to a village last week on a turbo prop plane.  I had to get down on my hands and knees to get into the plane, and to my seat.  Then I had to sit with my head held off to one side the entire flight.  Talk about a pain in the neck, literally!  I had to modify my old Cessna 150 to even be able to fit into the seat and sit up straight.  I flat don't fit in my partners T-Craft.  Had to have a bubble canopy made to fly my Father-in-laws experimental.  Now there was a short dude, 5'4", belly gunner on a B-17 during WWII.

Some of us tall people hate being tall, we want to be average!

Sorry I'm a sore head, but I got a sore head.  Wife asked me to get something from the storage shed.  The door is only six feet high, I'm 6'2".

[Hodr]

Hey Sourdough,
if your father in law rode the belly turrett on a b-17 don't complain about his plane, stand tall and salute he's got it coming.

blindhari
Absent Companions

[Sourdough]

blindhari:  You are correct, he did deserve a salute.

He never told his kids or anyone about his part in the war, other than he was a belly gunner on a B-17.

After my wife entered the Air Force, and her and I went back to visit he talked to us.  Guess he felt we could understand, also he had sworn not to talk to civilians about the war.  We were not Civilians so he felt he could talk to us and not violate his oath.  He told us how he felt about what he had done.  And about how he felt about losing so many friends.

after his death my wife requested his war record.  She now had that and we now understand what a hero he really was.  He never told us about the three times his plane was shot down, once behind enemy lines.  Captured by a German patrol, who in turn was captured by French Resistance.  Smuggled back across lines and returned to England.  Refused assignment back to the states, stayed and flew till the wars end.

Quietly returned to civilian life, raised six kids, and never told anyone about his trials and tribulations of the war.  He was a real HERO in my book.

[Tommyt]

blindhari:  You are correct, he did deserve a salute
Quietly returned to civilian life, raised six kids, and never told anyone about his trials and tribulations of the war.  He was a real HERO in my book.

Not to derail
Yes he did and I do agree with you

[Hodr]

One of my godfathers was a Fourth Marine Raider.  He was french basque from the hills above Fresno, Ca.  His exploits and official record were written up in Argosy and Bluebook for Men back in the the 1950s when I was growing up.  When I got out of the Army in 69 my brother married his daughter.  Over the next few years he told me more and more of why he was called the bad penney.  They included Pearl Harbor, Tarawa, Rabul, pelieu, and Iwo Jima.  He also made 3 aleutian Island raids that his concious memory would not allow him to remember.  He would refer to them as dreams that troubled him.  My father was one of the medics/guards who helped treat him for combat shock at the Presidio in San Francisco at wars end.  He was a very polite, fun loving, artistiic individual who created hollywood sets for 30 years. In all the time I knew him the shrapnel from Iwo Jima was still working its way out of his body.  He taught me how to be good with my hands and was one of my fathers best and longest friends..  My sister in law still has his dress blues in the study in a glass fronted display case, they are a blaze of glory.  I am just under 5'8" and  he stood about an inch shorter than I.  If this is small mans disease, we need more small men.  My other godfather was with Merrill in Burma and also treated for combat shock, bu then he was from Tennessee and about 6'.

blindhari
Sgt
Ranger Like my father before me
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